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OpenSocial, Killer Apps and Regular People
sixapart.com — At Six Apart, we'll be supporting the new OpenSocial initiative to make an open platform for social applications on the web. But for us, it's not about Google or Facebook. It's about the web itself.
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- mager, on 11/02/2007, -4/+4Excellent.
- HunkieChan, on 11/02/2007, -3/+6when its OpenSomething.. i will digg it!
- oilcan, on 11/02/2007, -7/+1i prefer irregular people. buried.
- blueboxed, on 11/02/2007, -4/+6people dont join fb for the apps... they join because its fb, so creating a social network based on social apps is thinking backwards
- Philluminati, on 11/02/2007, -3/+1This is clearly a losing social network pushing the standard because that's the only way it can survive. I do want to see OpenSocial happen but where is the support from facebook and my space? I don't think this can take off without support from either facebook or myspace.
- d0nkeyBOB, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1Looks like Myspace is getting on board
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/myspa ...
- d0nkeyBOB, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1Looks like Myspace is getting on board
- Philluminati, on 11/02/2007, -3/+1This is clearly a losing social network pushing the standard because that's the only way it can survive. I do want to see OpenSocial happen but where is the support from facebook and my space? I don't think this can take off without support from either facebook or myspace.
- tedhead2k, on 11/02/2007, -2/+5Call me when Facebook dies and people are actually looking for an alternative. I like my social networks to actually have the social aspect, i.e. people using it.
- cdmarcus, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3I wonder if one could implement a Facebook application that imports all the data accessible by you into the OpenSocial system... I suppose that would be a violation of privacy, though. Maybe if it just integrated your Facebook profile with your OpenSocial profile...
- Philluminati, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1I don't see why you can't ask the user he minds OpenSocial adapting / transfering his profile?
- anildash, on 11/02/2007, -0/+2The goal here isn't to replace Facebook -- it's to acknowledge that many, many people use more than one network, and that *none* of us have all of our friends/connections on just one network. That means that being able to use applications across those networks is valuable, and if Facebook is the place that works for you, that's great; It just doesn't have to be the *only* choice for everyone you know.
- cdmarcus, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3I wonder if one could implement a Facebook application that imports all the data accessible by you into the OpenSocial system... I suppose that would be a violation of privacy, though. Maybe if it just integrated your Facebook profile with your OpenSocial profile...
- wiz0rian, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3Facebook will allow open social soon they just won't support it
- Asianwaste, on 11/09/2007, -4/+3My dyslexic brain read "OpenSocial Killer Apps..." as "Open Sociopath Kills Regular People"
I have no idea how I read that but I was somewhat disappointed after I clicked the link... - jorgemir, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1i think people are joining fb in large part because of all the fun they have with the apps now available. at least a lot of the non tech people i know.
- kyapjoco, on 11/02/2007, -2/+1Oh yes, it's about Google and Facebook. I've noticed that the Facebook logo isn't included in the press releases of Google on various blogs and websites. Google lost the bid for advertising on Facebook and now it's retaliating through OpenSocial and its soon to be beta'd social network that will come out in the next few weeks. It's a war for advertising space and revenue and Google is taking it to the next level with or without Facebook.
- butafore, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3Where can I see "Regular People"?
- krynsky, on 11/02/2007, -1/+1The most important goal will be to get all the great social services such as del.icio.us, flickr, last.fm etc...to support a single open platform where we can easily post and retrieve data using the same framework...but 2 of those services I mentioned above are owned by Yahoo, so with Google or another behemoth controlling the platform I don't see this happening which is a bummer. For me, leveraging this platform to take Lifestreaming (see http://lifestreamblog.com) to the next level will be the killer app.
- bcoy, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1good idea.. get out of the way. Without a mass of users over a period of time, NONE of these big company's succeed.
- MScrip, on 11/02/2007, -3/+1I don't need apps. Facebook has plenty already... photos, messaging and the Wall. That's all you need.
- etnu, on 11/03/2007, -0/+6The real benefit here is not the networks that it works on today, it's the networks that it will work on tomorrow.
Facebook is on the way up today, and MySpace seems to be on the way down. Tomorrow Facebook will be on the way down and some tiny site that probably hasn't even been created yet will be on the way up.
The real winner here isn't Google, Facebook, or any other networking site -- it's the application developers.
I think this is a net win for the web. Instead of having one or two dominant players dictating everything that happens, we have thousands of smaller players all simply following a standard.
Open standards benefit everyone using these sites. Remember back when email didn't work between many large ISPs? How about the fact that, even today, the majority of IMs happen on a closed network?
Hopefully more APIs will be added and we'll see the sites focusing more on individual niches instead of worrying about having as many friends as possible. - rYno, on 11/02/2007, -0/+2I can't wait to start developing with OpenSocial - this just opens up so many opportunities and can tie a LOT of stuff together... love this idea.
- fnxy, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1sigh... there goes my IRL socialising for good. Just as I wanted to get out more...
- z0mbie2099, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1Facebook is like my attic, full of junk everywhere. I like this idea better. I'm tired of social networks hijacking my contact list and sending spam equivalent emails. Looking forward to the flexibility it'll bring.
- Coolaborations, on 11/02/2007, -0/+0I posted the following comment there -- it hasn't been approved yet (I guess because most people on the West Coast in the United States are currently sleeping ;):
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I searched for the "bianca" profile on tudiabetes.com
I found this: http://tudiabetes.com/profile/chispo95
It seems different than in Mr. Andreessen's screencast (linked to in the article above), but that is not the primary issue.
Will opensocial allow applications to share bianca's personal health/medical information across the web? Would it be possible to build applications that market new medications and/or treatments to bianca (and/or other tudiabetes members?).
How would this be different than the "Ads by Google" application already running at that website? Would more data be mined? Or would data be more protected than with Google's "traditional" advertising programs?
This raises many controversial issues and questions that (AFAIK) have not yet been addressed by any of Google's partners -- or have you considered any of these problems (such as personal privacy)?
This will be interesting to watch, as the story unfolds.... - JasonCox, on 11/02/2007, -1/+2Dugg only because Google didn't name it iSocial.
- akeema, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1This will be interesting to say the least. Now where is the software, my fingers are getting sweating waiting on it!
- donkeySays, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1yay for teh web!
- Coolaborations, on 11/02/2007, -0/+0ReadWriteWeb and TechCrunch are apparently also censoring some comments out -- see http://battellemedia.com/archives/004062.php#comme ...
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